Resilient Safer Approach to cope the oily waste generation in industrial facilities: lessons learned from Cuban installations
Author(s): David Javier Castro Rodriguez, Omar Gutiérrez Benitez, José Poma Rodriguez, Dayana Ribassa Ribassa, Orlando Viera Ribot, Emanuel Caslas Perez, Fulvia Chiampo, Alberto Godio, Micaela Demichela
More info: Nowadays, huge quantities of oily wastewater and oily solid wastes are associated with different industrial activities, which not only may harm the environment and human health but also a performance worsening of the installation. The goal of this study was to establish a resilient approach to cope with oily waste generation in industrial facilities. Several lessons learned from Cuban installations studied separately for ten years in the municipality of Cienfuegos were the cornerstone for the model definition. The approach included the development of a novel methodology to address integrated features of loss prevention in the operation of petroleum transport, storage, process, handling, and use. This methodology was designed and improved using the principle of convergence to integrate engineering procedures, standards, technical and management tools. The results from the methodology implementation generated a list of findings translated into industrial failures modes, that can impact both environment and human health. Then, a set of general and specific causes associated including the incidence of the natural events were deployed in different orders. The environmental monitoring around the plants offered a significant sample of points that allowed the spatial representation of how hydrocarbon pollution constitutes a complex network of permanent stress rooted in the territory of Cienfuegos. Moreover, a package of inherently safer solutions was generated as primary prevention, integrating the waste management hierarchy concept. At last, this iterative approach generated a research project to develop a bioremediation technique for the treatment of oily sludge from maintenance operations, which can be neither eliminated for the inherently safer solutions nor disposed to the environment. The lessons learned from Cuban installations enabled the conception of this resilient approach, which represents a framework to improve industrial safety performances contributing to the release reduction of oily waste. In addition, it represents a contribution to increasing the awareness of industrial vulnerabilities in the territorial resilience analysis.
2020 | Journal Articles
Patrimonio e tutela in Italia. A cinquant’anni dall’istituzione della Commissione Franceschini (1964-1967)
Author(s): Andrea Longhi, Emanuele Romeo
More info: Longhi, A. and Romeo, E., 2019. Patrimonio e tutela in Italia. A cinquant'anni dall'istituzione della Commissione Franceschini (1964-1967). WriteUp Site.
2019 | Book Editing
Mainstreaming climate resilience: A GIS-based methodology to cope with cloudbursts in Turin, Italy
Author(s): Grazia Brunetta, Ombretta Caldarice, Martino Faravelli
More info: Cities play an increasingly significant role in the challenges posed by climate change, mainly due to their role in economic and demographic drivers. It is generally agreed that the intensification of climate change effects, such as extreme weather events, requires strengthening in the mechanisms of adaptation and the endogenous self-organization of urban systems. An operative way to adapt is by mainstreaming climate resilience, i.e., the iterative process of integrating climate change considerations into policymaking, budgeting, implementation, and monitoring processes at national and subnational levels. This paper falls under this heading, and it aims at building an innovative methodology to experiment with data-driven approaches to support the resilient transition of the city of Turin in Italy. The process aims to create territorial knowledge of specific weather phenomenon, that cloudburst events are, by filling the gap of existing hazard information with original vulnerability datasets. The proposed approach will create a hydraulic vulnerability map by identifying cloudburst vulnerable areas with a GIS-based spatial overlay. The paper will employ an array of datasets combined with original modelling techniques elaborated with the help of the open-source InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs) software program. The results allow us to understand what would happen if the urban water network failed to discharge during a phenomenon of intense rain and, consequently, which city areas should undergo adaptation and transformation to reduce their flooding vulnerability.
2022 | Journal Articles
Pianificare la post-carbon city per la resilienza dei territori
Author(s): Grazia Brunetta
More info: Negli ultimi decenni stiamo assistendo a scala planetaria ad una debole o pressoché nulla capacità di risposta dei territori agli eventi causati dalla dinamica sistemica in atto del cambiamento climatico. Gli effetti rilevanti del cambiamento climatico sono il prodotto della frammentazione degli ambienti naturali e della crescente vulnerabilità dei suoli, conseguenti alle intense e progressive dinamiche di urbanizzazione in atto. L’attuale modello di sviluppo - prioritariamente fondato sullo sfruttamento intensivo ed estensivo delle risorse naturali - è ancora oggi sostenuto da una dinamica di urbanizzazione in incremento a scala globale, fortemente dipendente da fonti energetiche fossili. Nonostante siano trascorsi trenta anni dalla Conferenza ONU di Rio de Janeiro (1992) che introdusse il concetto culturale di sviluppo sostenibile e portò alla condivisione internazionale della necessità di dare avvio a politiche per ridurre le emissioni di “gas serra”, il concetto di post-carbon city, ovvero di città a neutralità climatica, è relativamente recente nelle strategie internazionali.
2022 | Book Section
Defining a social-ecological performance to prioritize compensatory actions for environmental regeneration. The experimentation of the environmental compensation plan
Author(s): Angioletta Voghera, Benedetta Giudice
More info: Performance-based planning (PBP) is an approach to define a flexible, strategic and site-based scenario for the improvement of the social-ecological quality of the territory. The paper provides an experimentation of environmental compensation within the Italian context that can be traced back to the performance-based planning approach. The experimentation proposed is the Environmental Compensation Plan (ECP) of the Stura di Lanzo River, where the involvement of local stakeholders, environmental evaluation, environmental planning and design have been linked together for the definition of specific renaturalisation and environmental regeneration actions within the context of the River Agreement (RA). The ECP and relative methodological framework are then proposed to select and design priority actions of environmental compensation in different territorial contexts. Finally, some indications to further enhancing ECP effectiveness following PBP approach have been reported.
2020 | Journal Articles
La città comunale e l’architettura dei palazzi pubblici (XIII-XIV secolo)
Author(s): Andrea Longhi
More info: Storia dell'architettura in Italia. Tra Europa e Mediterraneo (VII-XVIII secolo)
2022 | Book Section